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A great documentary style movie, 27 December 2004
Author:
baoz from United States
It is the best Chinese movie of the year I have seen. I was shocked by
the story and the presentation of the movie. It took me quite a while
to get out of it.
The movie talked about how a volunteer mountain patrol team fought
against the poachers and protect the extincting Tibet antelopes. Due to
the increasing demand for the leather and cashmere of Tibet antelopes,
poachers drove the once 1 million antelopes to the edge of extinction
(less than 10 thousand). A retired military officer volunteered to
setup a mountain patrol to protect the antelopes and hunt the poachers.
What is touching is not the survival or dying of the antelopes but that
of human beings above the 4000 meters (over 12,000 feet) high land.
Wind, snow and deserts took away food from people and they could not
make a living. Lots of people turned to hunt antelopes for their own
being. Meanwhile, the team members of the mountain patrol were fighting
for their own life while hunting the poachers. The volunteers had no
government funding, no food, and no weapons. They were at great
disadvantage when facing well equipped, out numbered and brutal
poachers. Without any alternatives, they had to sell the skins of the
antelopes they captured in order to support their duties of protecting
the extincting creatures. The movie presents the brutal facts right in
front of you and make me hard to breath.
The story was set in the period of 1993 to 1996, however, I highly
suspect that it was an on-going cat and mouse game, and the situation
of today may not be much better than what was described in the movie.
Highly recommended.
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